ER 1. 1914.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



47 



pounds. In thi ilu- association had the support of the 



more important factories, while in conjunction with the I 

 Material Testing Bureau, the manufacturers formed a technical 



i ■ inization for testing the quali the products in 



■ i" ration with the buyers ["he result was that, when not other- 

 wise stipulated, .ill wire coming on the market fulfilled th< r< 

 quirements of the German \ of Electrii neers 



This settlement of the technical question involved did imi, 

 however, work in practici While the ''Normal Compound" 

 was i" contain 33.3 pei cenl oi crude rubber, with a proportion 

 of resin nol exi eeding 6 pei ci nl . ii was onlj stipul 

 added substances thai nol more than 3 per cent of their . 



■ ontents should consi en ine In this n peel there 



was perfect freedom accorded the manufacturers, so that some 

 low grade compounds were produced, of wh containing 



34 per cent, crude rubber, 2 per cent, sulphur, 2.5 per cent, 

 ceresine, and 61. S pei cent, chalk, was nol the worsl P 

 dropped two Mar- ago to a level without pro en showing 



a 1"-- 



\ combination was then formed b) several concerns, operating 

 with extreme caution, so as not to attract competition b 



ivelj high prices. Moreover, thi facl was red nized that 

 ecialh large investmenl of capital is rib! required for estab- 

 ol this desci iption. Trices were therefi i 

 on a scale which only included a modest profit for manu- 

 irers. The idea was further developed in the fall of 1913 

 by the establishment of a syndicate, in the form of the ''Selling 

 i hi of the United Manufacturer- of Insulated Wire/' This 

 syndicate had to arrange the prices so as to ever the pi 

 of the dealers, power plants ami installation firms (whicl 



I, in additi.-n to a manufacture: 's pro I 

 of about 1" 



When it came out with its prices thi ite soon found 



the effeel of foreign competitii n. It was realized that the foreign 

 manufacturer with an import dut) equaling only 5 



the German maker who was looking foi a 

 of 10 per cenl These conditions were I e extern due to 



the expressions ' an electrical engineers, when the 



tariff of 1906 was in preparation, to the effeel that thi 



no protection, the German industry being, in their viev 



well fortified that it was not threatened by an from 



abroad. 



Meanwhile the establishment of fa dicate 



increased the competition, 



ties took up insulated wire. 

 I inlii these circumstances, it was reported, even before the 

 outbreak of the European war. that the syndicate, in spite o 

 good intention- and cautious plan oi opi ration, would be i hliged 

 to consider the question of dissolution on its expiry nexl 

 cember. 



THE GERMAN EMPIRE AND ITS COLONIES. 



AS will be recalled, the German Empire proper consists oi 

 **■ twenty-five states with a total of 208,780 square mill 



• illation in the aggregate of 64,923,993 Oi these the mosi 

 important are: 



Square Mill I ' pulation. 



Prussia 134,616 10,165,219 



ria 29,292 6,887,291 



Wiirttembi rg 7.534 2,437,574 



5,82 i !.833 



Kingdom of Saxony : 1,80 



Hesse 1,282,051 



Hamburg 160 1,014 



Alsace-Lorraine : 1,874 



Total of eight principal state- 191 60.M 



Remaining seventeen -tates 16.996 4,31 



Grand total 208,78 



Out of the above grand total 28,092,117 persons were, accord- 

 to the last census (that of 1907), engaged in the following 



ulture, cattle n u b 9,732,472 



Forestry, hunting and fishing. 150,785 



Mining, mi tal works and other industi ii 11,2 



merce and tradi 3,477,626 



Domestic and othei 



Professions l,; 



I ■ ital in .28,092,1 17 



The remaining population oi aboul 36 millions was 



I of next-of-kin, without principal in and without 



me. mi 



KM \\ IMPORTS AND EXPOK i 

 I he following tabli man import- and ex] 



for the last -ix years : 



$2,019,273,250 $1,620 



1909 2,215,10 1.714,67. 



1910 2,321 •' ,000 1,91 



. . 2,501,736,250 2,056.0 



-.7.-4. _';- 2,2; 



1913 -'.'.73.750,000 2,4/ 



GERM W COLONIES VND M PI N 



\- compared with the area oi the I !i rman Empin 

 square miles, the colonies and depi of that countrj 



. 1,027,820 square m ■ this 



extent of territory are about 24,389 whites and 12,041 

 ere i ive times 



fifth of the population, of which onl) ,. 

 i if whites 



In 1912 German imports from its colonies equalled S13.22 : 

 while German exports to the colonies n the equivalent 



of $14,325.(1011. During the same i Britain's im| 



from the same source were equal to $2,954,995 i that 



(77. lu- 

 re located in Africa. Asia and in the Pacific, 

 ling to annexed table 



ST VTISTICS OF GERM 



d Vrea 



Africa — Square Miles. 



o $3,; 1,03 



Kamerun I'd. 130 



German East Africa $84,1 51,106 



German - i \trica 322,450 



I,. 



I African possessions 931,460 



li: Asia — 



Kiauchau 200 



In the Pacific — 



: \x New ( iiixka : 



Kaiser Wilhelm's Land 70,000 



Bismarck Vrchipelago 20,000 



i / - . 



Palan or Pelen Island f 30U 



Mariamn Islands 250 



Solomon [stands 4,200 



Marshall [stands, etc 150 



S \Mo\x l-i \xris : 



'. aii 



ilu 340 



rota! Pacific possessions 96,160 



I \KY, 



Africa 93 



Vsia 200 







11,428,429 



601,427 



35,136 

 63( 



ll.42S.4JO 

 63' 



Grand total 1.0 



The proportion of white population in the three division 

 Africa, 22,405 shown; Pacific, 1,984. 



In area the German c bird 



1 tin' United Si 



